Where do you start when choosing new flooring?
When purchasing new flooring, you should first decide what type of flooring you want in each room. Carpet for the bedrooms? Carpet, LVT, laminate or wood in the hallways? LVT or stone in the kitchen and bathroom? It’s your home, so you can choose the flooring you want for every room!
With this in mind, you need to ensure that the flooring is suitable for each room. The main aim is to ensure that the flooring for bathrooms and toilets is not easily damaged by moisture. Also, most people prefer soft carpets in their bedrooms.
You then need to decide how much you want to spend and then start shopping for products within your budget.
Which floor covering is popular right now?
The most popular interior flooring currently is LVT flooring. There are numerous features of LVT that make it attractive to so many. It is waterproof, easy to install, hardly reacts to temperature and is available in numerous variants.
Considering all the advantages mentioned above, all of these advantages are available at a lower cost than natural flooring types such as real wood or stone. The Click LVT versions are designed to be suitable for DIY projects by people who have little or no experience installing flooring.
The glued LVT versions are also easy to install, but require glue, making installation more involved. This version is more suitable for professional installers and also for commercial environments such as schools and offices.
Is LVT really better than laminate?
LVT and laminate floors are very similar. The main difference between them is that LVT flooring is completely waterproof, whereas laminate is not. Laminate is slightly cheaper and can be less brittle when installed. Laminate is also extremely durable, but can easily be damaged when wet.
This gives you the peace of mind that you can submerge LVT in water without it being completely fine. For a little more money, most people would rather have peace and quiet.
However, there are those who choose to save money by only using LVT in bathrooms and toilets and use laminate for the larger living rooms, hallways and kitchen areas. If you want to keep costs down, it makes sense to use the cheaper option for large areas and the more expensive option for smaller areas. Online stores for flooring supplies tend to have lower prices than high street stores, so it’s worth shopping there.
Which is better: stone or LVT flooring?
LVT and stone floors serve a similar purpose, being both durable and waterproof. However, when you consider that more people have purchased LVT flooring than stone flooring in recent years, the numbers suggest that LVT must be better.
LVT is easier to install, feels warmer, is slightly softer, and is quieter when walking. A large percentage of do-it-yourselfers are capable of installing click LVT flooring, whereas a much smaller percentage are capable of installing stone flooring.
As with most things in life, it ultimately comes down to personal preference. High quality stone floors look fantastic and it’s easy to see why stone floors are still popular.
Is real wood flooring still a good idea?
Real wood floors are still very popular, so many people obviously still think it’s a good idea. The natural, warm luxury that real wood floors provide is unique and cannot be matched by any other flooring material.
Solid wood floors are known to last over 100 years, which is an incredibly long period of time. Stone floors can also last this long, but stone is significantly harder and colder than wood.
Prefinished parquet floors with a thick wear layer can easily last more than 30 years. It generally does not last as long as solid wood because it has a thinner wear layer and cannot be sanded as often as solid wood.
Is carpet suitable for bathrooms?
Carpet is often used in bathrooms because it is soft on bare feet and also non-slip. While carpets in bathrooms and showers can definitely get a little wet, the main reason not to use carpet in these areas is hygiene.
Especially in rooms where there are toilets, the most hygienic floor covering is one that can be easily cleaned with disinfectant. The nature of a carpet, with its soft fibers, can make it difficult to clean as much as a material like LVT.
If you really want to have carpets in bathrooms and toilets, it is best to change the carpet more regularly to be as hygienic as possible.
